Author: Paul T. Christensen

Paul T. Christensen is Associate Professor of the Practice in the Political Science Department at Boston College. He is the author most recently of "Russia as Semiperiphery: Political Economy, the State, and Society in the Contemporary World System," in the book The Political Economy of Russia, Neil Robinson, ed., (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).

Since 1991, Russia has seen massive changes in the structure of the economy, control over property, the reconfiguring of employment by sector, the provision of social benefits, and the nature of the labor market. The impact of these shifts on work...